[One-on-One]

[4th floor]

[12:15 AM]

Joker: WooOAAAAAH!

(Joker is being reeled from below.)

.....

(He then hits the ground from his back.)

Joker: GAH-....... Aaaaaagh!..... gaaaah!....

(As Joker groans in pain and rocks his back left and right, The claw lets go of Joker's coattails. He then slowly gets back up.)

Joker: Agh-... Aaahh....

(He sees what's ahead of him, which is Jack back at his feet. The claw reels its way back to its housing from his right wrist.)

Joker: ?!

Jack: Heh... you had me up there, Amamiya.

Joker: Tch...

Oracle: "Joker, are you okay?!"

Mona (afar): JOKER?!

(Mona rushes to the hole, seeing Joker and Jack from below.)

Joker: I'm fine.

Jack: Leave us be!

Mona: Joker! You're not gonna do this-

Joker: Mona, Go! I'll hold him off, you get out of here!

Mona: Hey, I'm not leaving YOU!

Joker: I'll be meeting you back outside!

Oracle: "Joker?! She can wait!-"

Joker: JUST GO!

Mona: Tch-....

(Mona jumps down and runs away to the exit.)

Jack: Heh..... what a leader you are.... You're putting yourself ahead for your comrades....

Joker: .....

Jack (cont'd): Or you're just desperate for her?

Joker: Tch-..... Shut up, and fight me.

(Jack smirks.)

Jack: That's the spirit.

(Jack and Joker stare down each other again, both having bruises and cuts all around each other. Blood drips down into Joker's face, as he glared at Jack, the other smirks at him again. The two clenched their fists as it makes a crack.)

Joker: .....

Jack: .....

.....

(The two charge for each other.)

Joker: *pant* *pant*

Jack: *pant* *pant*

(The two now near to each other, Jack lets out his right fist.)

Jack: Haaaaa-

Joker: PERSONA!

(Arsène is quickly drawn out.)

Arsène: SHAH!

(He makes a knee strike into Jack's body, pushing him away. Joker quickly withdraws Arsène back and follows it with a punch using his right.)

Jack: !

(Jack quickly deflects it with his left forearm.)

Jack: Persona!

(Fantomas is summoned and quickly punches Joker's face.)

Joker: UNH-

(Joker is pushed back, Jack quickly goes to punch Joker with his left.)

Joker: !

(Joker quickly grabs hold of Jack's arm, Arsène punches his bicep, briefly distorting it.)

Jack: GAAAH!

(As Joker holds his arm, Jack briefly looks up in pain, then he goes to punch Joker's ribs on his left side.)

Joker: GAH-

(Jack repeats the same move, this time it made Joker let go of his arm and briefly stagger back.)

Jack: NOW!

Fantomas: YAAH!

(Fantomas makes a right hook into Joker's face.)

Joker: UNNH-...

(Joker is staggered back again. Jack makes a left side kick into Joker's body.)

Joker: URRGH-

(Fantomas goes for a roundhouse kick with his right into Joker's head. But the latter notices.)

Joker: !

(Arsène is summoned and quickly stops the kick by locking Fantomas's leg against his body.)

Arsène: HMMPH!

(Arsène strikes Fantomas's knee with his right elbow, snapping it, followed by making a backhand punch into his face, pushing him away.)

Jack: Tch- Hmph!

(Jack quickly makes two roundhouse kicks into Joker, one being at his body and the other at his head.)

Joker: UNF-

Jack: Fantomas!

Fantomas: HMMPH!

(Fantomas makes a push kick to Joker's body.)

Joker: UCK!

(Joker's eyes dilated, feeling the excruciating pain, he is then sent away, tumbling through the floor.)

Jack: Heh....

(Jack sprints ahead for Joker.)

.....

(Joker recovers, he looks back up.)

Joker: ?!

(His eyes widened again, seeing Jack before him, with his arms reaching out. Jack tackles Joker, throwing themselves far enough to crash through the window.)

Joker: UNGH!

(The two are now in the air outside, the two cling to each other as they fall into the ground.)

Jack: Unh-

(Jack briefly pushes Joker away and punches him.)

Joker: UGH!

(Joker quickly looks to his left, seeing the window to the first floor below. He quickly reaches out his right arm to the window and fires the grappling hook, clinging it through the wall above the frame of the window. Jack notices.)

Jack: !

Joker: Arsène!

(Arsène kicks Jack away.)

Jack: UGH!

(Jack is now distanced from Joker, the grappling hook then quickly reels in with all its strength, bringing Joker into the first floor as Jack crashes into the ground.)

[1st Floor]

(Joker crashes through the window and tumbles onto the floor.)

Joker: GHHR-...

(He then stops, He catches his breath as he groans in pain again.)

Joker: *pant*... Gah-aaahhh!.... *pant* *pant*

Oracle: "Joker?.... Joker?! Are you still there?!"

Joker: I'm good.... Takumi is taken care of!

Oracle: "Good! We need to get going, hurry!"

Joker: Yeah-

(Joker struggles to stand back up.)

Joker: I'll-..... I'll be on my-... way!

(Another hook hits the wall near the window, with its sound grabbing Joker's attention.)

Joker: !

(Joker looks at the broken window, seeing the hook on the wall and a line outside.)

Joker: Agh-....

(Realizing who it is, he looks down to the ground, briefly shutting his eyes as he feels fed up. The line retracts, revealing a wounded Jack speeding into the window.)

Jack: Haaaaaaaaa

(He enters through, with the grappling hook retracting back and his right fist reared and ready to be thrown into Joker. The latter notices.)

Jack (cont'd): aaaaAAAAHH!

(Jack nears to Joker and lets out his punch.... But Joker quickly rolls away, causing Jack to miss the blow and end up punching the ground, cracking it.)

Jack: *pant*.... *pant*...

Joker: *pant*....

(Joker quickly gets back up to his feet, briefly staggered, followed by Jack.)

Joker: *pant*.... You... just don't know when to quit huh?

Jack: I learned it from you, hehe... Nice move back there, you opted to kill me huh? Change of rules in you?

(Joker's eyes subtly widened in response, expressing both surprise and confusion.)

Joker: *pant*...W-what-.... The-?!

Jack: Can't tell if you're trying new things or maybe it's just the years of victory made you a soft man. Nevertheless, it breaks my heart to see you like this. I guess you're being annoyed by your number 1 fan.

(Joker briefly grits his teeth in anger. He then lets out a sigh.)

Joker: That's an interesting way to put it, coming from you.

Jack: Hm?

(Jack slowly raised his eyebrow.)

Joker: I gotta admit, you got some finesse in you. But you tell me, is it truly in your heart?

Jack: Your point being?

(Joker smiles.)

Joker: I just think whatever you got doesn't match up with who you truly are. You look up to me, You fight like me, that's why I know how you move.

Jack: Heh.....

(Jack scoffs Joker's words as he briefly shrugged and looked away.)

Jack: Is that so, Ren? If that were the case, why do you feel so stressed about it? Looks like you're about to give in.

(Joker's eyes subtly sharpened as he clenched his fists.)

Joker: Really? And yet I still stand. It seems you're lacking the conviction. What's stopping you? It looks like you don't have what it takes to be a real Phantom Thief if you can't finish off your enemy.

(Feeling as if his nerve has been struck, Jack smirks as he grits his teeth in anger.)

Jack: I'll show you.

(He quickly throws a right straight punch into Joker.)

Joker: (Gotcha.)

(Joker's vision slows down, he quickly sees the incoming punch. He grabs for Jack's wrist and twists it, locking his arm.)

Jack: !?

(Joker then pulls Jack near to himself, he quickly lets go of his arm and summons Arsène. The two let out a rapid chain punch into Jack's abdomen. His eyes widened, feeling the pain from the sudden series of punches.)

Jack: UuGH!-

(Jack staggers back.)

Joker: HmmMPH!

(Joker lets out left and right hooks into Jack's head.)

Joker: HrrRNG!

(He makes a right uppercut.)

Jack: UuhhUCK.

(Joker continues to make left and right hooks, but Jack quickly blocks them with his arms as he protects his head.)

Joker: Arsène!

Arsène: DeiiYAH!

(Arsène lets out an overhead punch, straight into Jack's face.)

Jack: GaaAAH!

(Jack is pushed back, he briefly staggers away.)

.....

Jack: *pant*... You...

Joker: *pant*....

(Joker walks tA!

(Ryuji throws a punch with his right.)

The Detective: Tch.

(The Detective catches his arm in a casual manner and grips it very tight, forcing Ryuji's hand to open up reactively.)

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[Writer's Note: The model used for Ryuji is a placeholder since I can't find a model that's similar to what was written.]

Ryuji: ?!

The Detective: Just co-operate with me kid, You'll be doing yourself a favor for yourself.

(Ryuji switches to his Metaverse attire.)

Skull: LET GO!

(Captain Kidd appears.)

Captain Kid: OOOORA!

(Captain Kidd makes a punch onto the detective's stomach.)

The Detective: Persona

(A mysterious red Persona appears and blocks Captain Kidd's punch.)

The Detective: Unnh!.....Damn that's strong.

(Skull notices the red arms blocking his Persona's punch.)

Skull: Wait.....WHAT THE!-

The Detective: Hmph!

(The Detective punches Skull on his stomach.)

Skull: UGHAH!-

(Skull switches back to his normal attire.)

Ryuji: *cough* *cough* What the hell are you?!

The Detective: Last warning kid, You really don't want to do this.

Ryuji: haaaaaAAAHH!

(Ryuji makes another punch.)

The Detective: Magatsu-Izanagi!

(His Persona "Magatsu-Izanagi" quickly appears and punches Ryuji back before he even lands a punch onto him.)

(Ryuji gets blasted to the wall [https://img.wattpad.com/fd98e6326a0e34f33e49e1de836f6c9154480b2c/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f546230526f7a4e4b364e512d6c513d3d2d313039373532373730362e313639313332396662373065333665363334353736393037323235352e706e67?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

(Ryuji gets blasted to the wall.)

Ryuji: GAH-......

(The detective slowly walks toward to Ryuji.)

Ryuji: yoooOOOUU!

(Ryuji switches to his Phantom Attire again.)

(Captain Kidd dashes out and goes for an another oncoming punch.)

The Detective: !

(Magatsu Izanagi appears and parries.)

Skull: MEGATON RAID!

(Captain Kidd sends out a giant iron to drop onto The Detective.)

The Detective: !

(He looks up and notices the iron about to fall into him.)

The Detective: Sukakaja!

(A green light flashes under him, his speed increases, he dodges forward from Skull's attack.)

Skull: SHIT!

(Megaton Raid gets missed and hits the ground, rumblings the entire room. Skull and The Detective try to keep their balance as it shakes.)

(Skull loses his balance and drops to the floor, Then the rumblings stops. Magatsu-Izanagi pulls out his sword and instantly slashes Captain Kidd.)

Skull: !

(Skull instantly stands up.)

Magatsu-Izanagi: hmp!

(He makes a 2nd slash, But Captain Kidd blocks it.)

Captain Kidd: RRAAH!

(Captain Kidd successfully punches Magatsu-Izanagi.)

The Detective: Shit!.....Come back!

(Magatsu-Izanagi disappears back to stationary.)

(Skull runs toward The Detective.)

Skull: Hmph!

(Skull makes a punch. But The Detective blocks it.)

Skull: SHAH!

(Skull makes a successful kick onto his stomach.)

The Detective: UH!-

(Skull makes another punch.)

(But The Detective ducks over and moves behind him [https://img.wattpad.com/d0ecf526c39801202845e73dbb5d02d8d665d52c/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f4d344658522d50584d31515437773d3d2d313039373532373730362e313639666539303431343233383963383736373835313537303638362e6a7067?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

(But The Detective ducks over and moves behind him.)

Skull: ?!

The Detective: HUPH!

(The Detective punches Skull on his face.)

Skull: UHHHACK-

(Skull is dazed for a few seconds, then returns to his senses.)

Skull: TCH!....HMPH!

(He steps on The Detective's left foot.)

The Detective: UNH!-

(Skull punches him with the left. But The Detective dodges and catch his arm.)

Skull: GRR!

(Skull switched for the right but The Detective catches it again.)

Skull: HAAAAH!

(Skull quickly retracts his left arm and goes for a gut punch, But The Detective quickly deflects with his right wrist.)

The Detective: (Shit! He's getting desperate.)

(Skull quickly retracts and punches with his left to the face, But The Detective dodges it again.)

The Detective: ENOUGH!

(The Detective punches Skull down.)

Skull: UGAAAHH-

(Skull fell to the ground, He's then switched back to his normal attire.)

Ryuji: uuuuuggghhh......

(Ryuji falls unconscious, slowly closing his eyes before his head turning to its left.)

The Detective: *huff*......*huff* You're one piece of work.....*gulp*..*huff*...

(He smirks as he grabs his radio, then holds the button to communicate.)

The Detective: Attention units, I managed to apprehend Sakamoto. He's in my custody now. Over.

.....

......

Police Officer: "Good job Adachi, return to HQ. Over."

The Detective: Copy that, over.

(The Detective puts away his radio and grabs out his handcuffs. He repositions Ryuji's body, facing head-down and puts his arms behind his back before applying the handcuffs on both of his wrists.)

The Detective: Urgh-

(He carries Ryuji's body and places him on his right shoulder. He heads out from the apartment.)

The Detective: ....?

(He looks at his left, seeing other tenants who are awaken by their fight, startled. He smiles.)

The Detective: I am deeply sorry, pardon the disturbance.

(The Detective briefly bows down his head, he then continues on to bringing Ryuji to his car.)

[END OF CHAPTER, TO BE CONTINUED.] Pier, Minato City, Tokyo]

[12:43 AM]

(They reach to the entrance of the pier, Joker and Oracle jump out from the van and roll into the ground as it forms back to Mona. They all run to the pier.)

.....

.....

(They have arrived at its boardwalk.)

Joker: *pant*..... *pant*.....

Mona: Well..... we're here.

Oracle: I read no signs of Sumire at the moment..... let alone anyone.

Joker: Damn....

(All of the lights around them suddenly shut off.)

Everyone: !

Joker: What the?-

Oracle: I have a bad feeling about this...

Mona: Damn, looks like Takumi tricked us!

(A helicopter can be heard within the distance, followed by a rumble of footsteps from afar.)

Everyone: .....?

(They all then notice what's coming in front of them from far away, being a large group of people.)

Oracle: .....

(As they near, it reveals to be a group of men consisting of them wearing an armored gear. All of them point their rifles at the Phantom Thieves. A spotlight flashes on Joker from the helicopter.)

Everyone: ?!

(They all cover themselves from the bright spotlight.)

Mona: Could it be?!

Oracle: What?

Joker: We're facing the Public Security themselves!

Oracle: Damn! Ibuchi wasn't lying after all...

(One of the members grabs a loudspeaker, it briefly makes a high-pitched screeching noise.)

.....

Public Security: Ren Amamiya! You're under arrest for multiple accounts of murder, extortion and robbery!

(Joker switches vision, he analyzes everyone, all of Public Security are emanating a red aura.)

Joker: Tsk! Shadows.....

Mona: Shadows too?!

Oracle: It's weird.... My Persona aren't even detecting them.... What are they?!

Mona: Takumi led us to a trap!

Joker: We only have one way to get out of it.

Mona: Joker-

(Joker steps ahead from everyone.)

Mona (cont'd): No!

Oracle: He's right..... at least this will fend everyone off for a long while.

(He mildly cracks his neck, and Arsène appears.)

Joker: Maeigaon!

Arsène: HMPH!

(Arsène puts out his open-palmed right hand onto the many agents, A large dark red circle appears..... all of the agents start to bleed out and scream in pain by the cursed spell. Oracle's Necronomicon starts detecting enemies.)

Oracle: W-what the?! NOW they start showing up?! Alright, You have 20 shadows!..... And counting.

Joker: Backup?

Oracle: Yeah, I heard it over their radio.

Mona: Darn-

(Mona joins with Joker, and he summons Zorro.)

Mona: Magarudyne!

(Zorro appears, he uses his sword and makes a swing that resembles the letter "Z" from its green trails, A giant gust of wind blows out from it. The wind reaches many of the agents, and they all have lost footing due to the strong wind.)

Joker: Alright! No holding back!

Mona: Yeah!

(Joker and Mona charge into the horde of agents as backup appears.)

Joker: PERSONA!

(Arsène dashes out, He punches the first agent he sees. Joker then fires out his grappling hook to another agent's rifle, he yanks it out from the agent's hands.)

Public Security Agent A: What the!?-

(The agent gets distracted from his gun being taken away. Joker runs to him and makes a drop kick.)

Public Security Agent A: GAHHH!-

(Joker lands on the ground, 5 agents circle into him.)

Mona: Zorro!

(Zorro dashes out and slashes 3 of the circling agents, Joker makes a sweeping kick and slips out the other 2. Then stands back up. Arsène makes a finishing punch onto the agent and Zorro with a stomp on the other.)

Oracle: Nice teamwork!

Joker: Mona, how are you holding up?

Mona: Never better, it feels like the old days again!

Oracle: Reminisce later, Get into the zone!

(The fight continues, and Joker and Mona take down every possible agent they see coming for them, combining their attacks together to lessen the numbers. Minutes pass by, the two begin to show few signs of weariness.)

......

......

.....

[1:00 AM]

Oracle: More backup have arrived!

(Oracle goes up into the air with Necronomicon.)

Joker: Shit!

(Joker and Mona are struggling to keep up on fighting. Whilst Oracle uses her Persona, she quickly presses lots of buttons in her UI.)

Oracle: Both of you, Take cover! [https://img.wattpad.com/3f44cb67f7270551cb9e5eb32b65e6c29e8cdb96/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f697752326e695a4849376f3766673d3d2d313038343533373930302e313638383634666266303461623466663234343433333035333335332e706e67?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

Oracle: Both of you, Take cover!

(Oracle presses a green button, Joker looks up.)

Joker: !!

(Necronomicon opens its hatch from below, revealing its giant bomb.)

Mona: CRAP!

(Joker grabs Mona and starts running away, Necromicon drops the bomb.)

Oracle: BOMBS AWAY!

Public Security Agents: H-huh?.......

!!!!

(The bomb falls onto the group of agents and detonates on impact. Many of them have been wiped out as it lets out it's large blast.)

Joker: *pant*... *pant*... *pant!*

(As Joker and Mona run away, the blast reaches.....)

Joker: ARGH!-

(They get caught within the radius of the blast. Joker and Mona are sent flying, before the two hit the ground, unconscious.)

Oracle: ?! JOKER!

(Oracle quickly flies back down.)

"Send out the gun!"

(One of the agents draws out their sniper and equip in a dark blue magazine. He takes aim into Necronomicon.)

Public Security Sniper: Taking the shot!

(He pulls the trigger, and a unique bullet is fired out, coated with a silver finish and a glowing blue line tracing from the two ends of the bullet. It pierces through Necronomicon and hits Oracle's right hip.)

Oracle: GAH!

(Necronomicon disappears and Oracle falls down. She hits the ground, knocking her out.)

Public Security Sniper: Target hit confirmed!

"Move in with the arrest. Go, go go!"

(The group advances forward to the downed bodies of the Phantom Thieves.)

.....

Joker: ....Gah-.....ack....

(Joker awakens, he slowly stands back up as he is covered with wounds and bloodstains all over him. The Public Security quickly notices it.)

"Wait!"

(They all come to a halt, seeing Joker at his knees.)

Joker: !?

(More backup have arrived.)

Public Security: GIVE IT UP AMAMIYA! YOU'RE SURROUNDED!

(Joker looks at an unconscious Mona)

Joker: *huff*..... Morgana!

(He then looks ahead, at an unconscious Oracle.)

Joker: *gulp*.....*huff*..... Futaba.... Gah-.....

(He pulls out the pendant Sumire gave to him, he opens it to look at the picture again.)

Joker: .....

(He closes his eyes, feeling that he might not turn back from what he's about to do next.)

Public Security: IT'S OVER!

(Joker slowly stands at such a tired state, he closes the pendant firmly and keeps it back into his pocket.)

Joker: *huff*..... a-.....

(They ready their guns, all pointing at Joker.)

Joker: *huff*.....

(Joker glares at the horde, His memory from years ago flashed before his eyes again.)

Joker: [https://img.wattpad.com/d0e8ae523f7f3d6ed2308787c19416410ab61ead/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f6962457874796439655050486a773d3d2d313333383530353637362e313736613962623133376635633331373738383334373634303732332e6a7067?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

Joker: .....

(He then locks his eyes at them, showing ferocity.)

Joker: ..... I'm not running away this time..... Arsène.

(Arsène appears, he has cracks all around him after sustaining a lot of damage.)

Joker: *huff*..... Heat..... riser!

(Flashes of colorful lights appeared around Joker briefly, his entire strength, speed and defense have been increased. Joker continues to breathe on while both him and the agents glare down at each other, as the air pass by.)

Joker: .....

(Joker slowly enters into a stance that readies him to dash ahead, all of the agents quickly focus their aim on him.)

Joker: ..... HMPH!

(Joker dashes, his launching step gave the pavement a crack. He charges in, fast.)

Public Security Agent: NOW!

(They all fire at the dashing Joker, Arsène gets in the bullet's way to protect Joker. Sparks are flying while Joker begins to glow in red.)

.....

.....

(As he nears to the group agents, He quickly takes down each of them one-by-one. His adrenaline nullifies the pain he takes, as he quickly kicks, stabs and slash down the agents who are attacking him or going for a flank, He also goes as far as breaking and snapping bones by parrying against their attacks, wrangling and pinning their arm then followed by throwing one of their bodies to the others. As Arsène supports him by casting out curse spells and attacking in Joker's blind spots, not giving his enemies a chance to take advantage of him.)

Joker: Hmmmph!

(Joker steps on an agent's knee, fracturing it.)

Public Security Agent B: UGAH!-

(Arsène follows it by grabbing his neck and making several gut punches then finishing with a straight punch onto his head. The agent drops to the ground.)

Joker: *pant*.....*pant*....!

(Many agents who are called for backup circle in around Joker.)

Joker: Tch! They keep on coming!

(Joker pulls out his smoke bomb.)

Joker: HMPH!

(He throws it on the ground. A large amount of smoke is dispersed, rendering Joker invisible.)

"H-huh?? Where did he go?"

(One of the agents makes sudden firings in an effort to take down Joker.)

Joker: !!

(Joker quickly ducks and moves around to dodge the oncoming bullets, He summons Arsène to protect himself.)

Joker: Sukukaja.

(Joker's overall speed has been increased, he quickly dodges the oncoming bullets acrobatically. The firings then stop.)

"RELOADING!"

(Whilst the agents reload their rifles, Joker switches his vision to find the aura on all of the Shadow agents. Seeing multiple red auras through the smoke.)

Joker: Hmph, got you!

(Joker pulls out his dagger, He dashes to the first agent he sees.)

Joker: HMPH!

(He makes a slash to the agent as he dashes through.)

Public Security Agent C: GAAACK-

(Blood gushes out from the agent. Joker stops and quickly turns around then dashes onto the next agent to slash through.)

Public Security Agent D: UGA!-

(As blood gushes out from the agent, Joker stops again to turn around and dashes onto another agent.)

.....

....

(He continuously slashes every agent he sees as he dashed past them. Each screaming in agony.)

Public Security Agent R: *pant* *pant* *pant*

(The last remaining agent watches in fear. He hears the death cries of his teammates as the sound of Joker's dagger slashing through continues alongside his quick and subtle footsteps.)

Public Security Agent R: *pant* HAAAAAAA!

(He starts blankly firing with his rifle.)

Arsène: Hmph!

(Arsène quickly grabs and takes away the rifle.)

Public Security Agent R: !....GAH!-

(He quickly looks at his body..... seeing a blade plunged into it. He then looks back up as the mist disappears.)

Public Security Agent R: !!

(He sees a wounded Joker glaring right at him.)

Joker: Arsène.

Arsène: USHHAAAH!

(Arsène delivers a brutal punch on the last agent to the face. Sending him flying then tumbling to the ground as he becomes unconscious.)

.....

.....

Joker: *huff*.....*huff*....

.....

Joker: *huff* [https://img.wattpad.com/91379841fcffb0003c6327bc9daa37fd5ecbee6e/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f754648647a36485a3257544b59773d3d2d313038343533373930302e313731306163383132653363386231663236363830363937323734362e6a7067?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

Joker: *huff*......

(Joker's vision becomes more blurry, as he sees a handful more of the Public Security closing in..... He then drops his knee to the ground as his mask reappears.)

Joker: Gah-....*cough*......*pant*...*pant*

.....

(Joker then clenches his fists as he struggles to get back up.)

Joker: Come-.... at-... me!.....

Female voice (Afar): That's enough, stand down!

Joker: !

(A mysterious woman approaches to Joker. She looks at him..... Joker looks up.)

Joker: ?!?!?

(His eyes widened out of shock, seeing the woman in front of him: Sumire [https://img.wattpad.com/986447ad8e67fcf7bf055b8bc1511163948517cb/68747470733a2f2f73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f776174747061642d6d656469612d736572766963652f53746f7279496d6167652f7163576c415643454358785074773d3d2d313038343533373930302e313664363338613838386431363566653933373037313738313936372e6a7067?s=fit&w=1280&h=1280]

(His eyes widened out of shock, seeing the woman in front of him: Sumire. She is donning her Metaverse clothes, whilst her pupils are glowing in yellow.)

Joker: S-Sumi-.... re?!

Violet: .....

(Joker analyzes her..... She bears a red aura.)

Joker: No.....

(Joker quickly gets back up, and staggers briefly before her.)

Joker: N-No!

Violet: Hmph..

(Violet glares at Joker coldly.)

Joker: H-how......WHY?!

Violet: ..... Persona!

(She summons her Persona: Cendrillon..... seen to be now bearing a red color all over her. Joker's eyes widened.)

Joker: No.... It can't be-

Violet: It's time I put you to rest, Phantom Thief.

Joker: Sumire- Listen to ME!

(Sumire continues to coldly stare at Joker's eyes with a serious demeanor.)

Violet: Your time has come, Amamiya. Finish him, Cendrillon.

Cendrillon: Hmph!

(Cendrillon goes to attack Joker.)

Joker: ARSÈNE-

(Arsène intervenes, he punches down Cendrillon..... Only for her to dodge it effortlessly.)

Violet: Return.

(The Public Security aims their weapons at Joker, But Violet raises out her hand. They all lowered down their guns.)

Violet: ..... Big mistake.

Joker: SUMIRE!

(Joker quickly goes to take down Violet to the ground.)

Violet: ...

(Violet quickly grabs for Joker's right wrist, twists his arm into locking it, and snaps it by hitting his elbow with her's.)

Joker: GAAAAAH-

(Joker is about to drop to the ground in pain but Violet continues to hold him.)

Violet: Cendrillon?

(Cendrillon is summoned, she punches Joker into his abdomen.)

Joker: UHHCK-....

(Joker coughs out blood.)

Violet: .....

Joker: A-....Ar-...

(She quickly grabs hold of his face and grips it firmly, covering his mouth. She glares to him menacingly whilst the latter's eyes are filled with distraught.)

Joker: Sumi-....

Violet: HmmMMPH!

(She slams Joker into the ground.)

Joker: GAH!

(She then pulls out her carbine and aims it at Joker's head. Joker then looks up, seeing the barrel right in front of him.)

Joker: !?

Violet: .....

Joker: P-..... Please.....

(She quickly flips her carbine, facing the barrel to her. She raises it.)

Violet: .....

Joker: .....

(Joker looks at her eyes, filled with both despair.)

Violet: .....

.....

.....

(She strikes Joker's head with its handle.)

Violet: .....

(She looks at the downed Joker....)

.....

(The earpiece on her right ear beeps, she presses it.)

Takumi: "What's the progress?"

Violet: He's done.

Takumi: "Awww I was hoping you'd let him live at least."

Violet: There's no time for playing games, we need to go for the remaining ones now.

Takumi: "I know.... I know.... Huh, it wouldn't hurt to go toe-to-toe with the other guys!"

Violet: Takumi!

Takumi: "Sorry... sorry.... Fine we'll get on with it. Let's at least reconvene back with Kyosuke-san before we go over who's next."

Violet: Yes, I'll be on my way.

(Violet turns to her back, facing at the Public Security.)

Violet: You're all dismissed.

(One of the agents nodded, Violet walks away. Leaving the scene filled with Joker, Oracle and Mona down on the ground along with the bodies of the agents.)

[ACT I - Phantom Damsel]

[END]

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